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My wife and I have spent some vacation time in Ocean City, Maryland, and when not worshipping the sun, we’d worship at St. Luke’s — mentioned here as one of the places that finds its pews packed during the summer months: Jimmy Burke offers some advice to soothe impatient drivers trying to enter or leave…

Pope Signs Contract With The Yankees. Wonder if he’s as good as John Paul. See below.

Unlike his predecessor, Pope Benedict is not what you would describe as a social butterfly. And on vacation, he’s mostly kept to himself, though he has made a couple brief trips from his compound: After the July 11 visit to the chapel in Lozzo, the pope made another evening outing July 12, heading toward the…

Over the years, countless people have taken oaths on the Fourth of July to become American citizens — and it turns out more than a few of them have been Catholic priests: Growing up in Ireland, Father Frank McNamee always saw America as a symbol of freedom, he said. The pastor of St. Peter Chanel…

Here’s something to warm the heart of Al Gore (and hopefully, not warm the rest of the planet.) The Vatican is taking steps to become the first entirely carbon neutral sovreign state in the world: In a brief July 5 ceremony, the Vatican declared that it had accepted a proposal to create a new Vatican…

Yesterday, I noted a Catholic connection to Lady Bird Johnson: her daughter’s grand wedding at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. But it seems there was more to it than that. A family friend was at Lady Bird’s bedside when she died. A friend who happens to be a priest: Paulist Father Robert Scott was…

I was struck by this thoughtful piece from the Los Angeles Times (by one of their senior editorial writers, no less) which asked whether it was possible to bring mystery to liturgy without resorting to Latin. The author says yes, and then explains: I recently attended Sunday Mass at a church in Hollywood at which…

“Who is my neighbor?” We look around this morning, and see those around us, in the pews, and know them. We see them on the street. We pass them in the grocery store. We wait with them in line in the bank. Maybe they live in our building, or we see them every morning on…

Ever have one of those Sundays? Click below and you’ll see what I mean.

While the world mourns the loss of a true steel magnolia, Lady Bird Johnson, it might be fitting to take a look back at a singular Catholic element of her life: the wedding of her daughter Luci in 1966 at Washington’s Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Time magazine, helpfully, detailed every breathless moment leading up…
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